The most controversial AI platform is arguably the one founded by Elon Musk. The chatbot Grok has spewed racist and antisemitic comments and called itself "MechaHitler," referring to a character from ...
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has laid off about 500 employees from its data annotation team, which is the company's largest ...
Backlash over offensive Grok outputs continues, just a couple weeks after the social platform X scrambled to stop its AI tool from dubbing itself "MechaHitler" during an antisemitic meltdown. Now, The ...
When Elon Musk's Grok AI had a Nazi meltdown the other month and started calling itself "MechaHitler," the General Services Administration — the agency in charge of government technology — quietly ...
Citing vulnerabilities and biased outputs in the program, multiple advocacy organizations and nonprofits signed a letter to the Office of Management and Budget asking it to bar Elon Musk’s Grok from ...
It's not the first time users have found chats they thought were private ending up online. Thousands of user chats with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok are now publicly available on Google. More than ...
Grok, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot embedded on the X platform, was briefly suspended from the social site Monday. “The reason for Grok’s brief suspension from X on August 11, 2025 ...
On June 21, 2025, Elon Musk announced a major update to xAI’s Grok chatbot. The company will retrain the model—likely launching it as “Grok 4”—after calling the current data filled with “far too much ...
Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, ...
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Over 30 consumer advocacy non-profit organizations are protesting the potential federal acquisition of large language model Grok, ...